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You're in a good place now you are listening to
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Perspectives with Ashley Burgess. Welcome back live to the Ashley
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Burgess Podcast. And I feel like many of us have
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days where we lack motivation, maybe years of lacking motivation.
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Some of us are worried about what others.
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Think, what they'll think, or how they'll judge us based
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on what we do in our life or a first
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succeeding or not.
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Many of us also don't really know what we can do.
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Can we do this, can we achieve this? Can I
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be successful? Will this work for me? Or am I
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just doing all this for nothing? I think many of
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us are in fear. We're in fear.
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What can I do?
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Will this work for me? Will this pan out for me?
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Some of you wanted to do different things in your life,
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and you had these dreams of being somebody else doing
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some other type of business or craft or career that
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you're not doing right now.
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Some of us feel like we're.
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Gonna screw it up if we do it, if we
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show up, we're gonna screw it up. Why do I
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even bother showing up? And a lot of us have
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dealt with this since childhood. Dealt with this from an
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early age, questioning our ability, wondering what to do, taking
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ourselves extremely serious in everything we do, and judging ourselves
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in every area of our life. I know that many
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of you judge yourselves on what you do, what you
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don't do. You even judge yourself on the things that
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you don't do, and you ponder and you feel bad
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about that, so you judge yourself again about pondering and
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thinking about it not doing. Then you beat yourself up
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again for it, you know. And I get it, and
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I understand that because I've done it too. I still
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work on this. I'm still in recovery for this. I
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still have to work on that. I still have to
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sit there and say, hey, Ashley, get up, do this,
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try it out, try it again, try it again, try
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it again, you know, because otherwise you don't want regret.
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You don't want to look back at life and say, man,
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I'm missed out, woman, I missed out. You don't want
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to look at it and be like, I can't believe
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I missed out on this, or I didn't do this,
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or I didn't do this to my ability, or I
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should have done this, or I should have been there,
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or I should have done that instead turning that around
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and saying okay. And maybe some of you need to
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have motivation based on the fact that, well, there could
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be regretting.
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Some of you have to go to the brass tack.
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So well, if I focus on the regret and how
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painful it is, that'll get me, that'll get me there.
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Some of you don't need that much pushing, but some
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of you do. And I was thinking about it earlier today.
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I was thinking about life and how many of us
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take it too seriously, many of us judge ourselves too much,
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And I thought, in my mind, you know, I've always
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believed that all the world is a stage. All the
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world is a stage, right, All the world is a stage.
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And it's interesting because it's the famous opening line of
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a monologue from William Shakespeare's play As You Like It.
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And it's interesting because I do believe that all the
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world is a stage. Whether it's a stage, whether it's
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your play or your film or you know, your movie
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or your documentary, whatever you want to call it. But
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if it's your play, how do you want that play
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to go? How do you want to see that play
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acted out? What part in that play do you want
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to take and what part do you not? What's important,
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what's not? How do you handle it? And then stepping
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back and looking at that play and realize that, yes, indeed,
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there are gonna be times that you take things too seriously.
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There are gonna be times that you don't think take
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things serious enough. Maybe, but I don't really think that's
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the case. There's gonna be times that people are gonna
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talk bad about you, But should that change your life?
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It's always very interesting.
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So let's begin the discussion of how life is a stage.
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All the world's a stage, and your life is a stage.
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And it's about the play that we want to produce.
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It's about the play that not may necessarily produce, but
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the play that we want to star in.
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Think about it.
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You're the star. The people around you are your co stars.
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You have the folks that are kind of on the outskirts,
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you have the folks that are the main characters. You
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have you know, the good ones, the bad ones, you
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know the protagonists. You have all this stuff, okay, And
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it depends on how you look at it and how
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you cultivate that play.
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It's your play, and when you.
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Think about it, I always find it funny, and I
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say this to a lot of my clients and sessions
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that I don't understand how people got along as far
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as they have, as far as most of us are
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all living in.
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Our own world. We live in our own world.
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We understand other people's ideas and concepts a little bit,
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but we really don't understand them completely. The fact that
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people aren't constantly fighting in the streets is beyond me,
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because all of us see things differently. Now we might
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see something similarly, but none of us are thinking the
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same way. None of us have the same consciousness, the
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same thought, the same thought process, the same history, the
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same background to cultivate put things together. We're all coming
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from a different perspective. How we were raised, the family dynamic,
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the historical reference to our lives, the goods, the bads,
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the positives, the negatives, the toxicities, the non toxicity. All
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those things contribute to our life. And so when we
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see something or we look at something and we say, oh,
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this is good, this is bad, this is horrible, this
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is great, that is all based on our perspective. It's
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all based on what we have lived through, what is
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our past, what we think, we deserve what we think
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we're going to get. And how we see the world.
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It's how we see the world. If I see the world,
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like if I'm seeing the world as a really great place,
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Let's say, like I see the world as a very
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positive environment. When I go outside in the morning, I'm
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gonna see probably, you know, a woman, you know, with
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her with her stroller and a little baby smiling back
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at her. I'm probably gonna see a man walking down
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the street, maybe with his young son, and they're, you know,
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walking to the park. I might see, you know, somebody
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walking their dog that's carrying a stick. You know, it's
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so happy to carry that stick. I might see neighbors
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walking together going somewhere, or families walking to something in
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the park. Whatever it is, I'm going to see that.
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If I see the world as being a horrible place
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when I walk outside, I'm going to think that everybody
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around me is going to you know, burglarize, steal whatever.
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I'm gonna wonder what people are up to. I'm gonna
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be watching people like a hawk, and I'm gonna all
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think that they have some sort of negative motivation. If
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I'm somewhere in the middle, I'm somewhere in the middle.
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It really does depend on what shade my glasses are.
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And I'm not saying that we all need to wear
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rose colored glasses. I'm just saying being aware that if
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we're wearing brown glasses all the time, it might put
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a perspective on life. It's about being open. It's about
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being there, being present in your play, not expectations or
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waiting for the other, shoot a job or whatever it is.
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But it's also about being a solid person. It's about
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having empathy. It's about having respect for other people. It's
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about showing respect to other people. It's about doing the
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right thing. It's not about being mean or cruel or violent.
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Those things are, honestly, you know, psychotic and wrong and
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unhealthy and need to be treated. However, if we are
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a somewhat healthy individual that has begun to work on ourselves,
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even if you feel unmotivated, even if you feel like
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you have procrastination, even if you sometimes succeed in self
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sabotaging behavior, right, and you're like, oh, man, I got
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you know, I hadn't been drinking, and I had two
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glasses of wine. But I've been doing so good and
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I feel really bad about myself. But you're trying. Are
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you quit smoking and you gave in the other day,
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I had a couple of cigarettes. But you're back on track.
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That's all that matters. Stop beating yourself up about it.
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But if you're not doing anything to better yourself, that's
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a whole other scene because that's a big self sabotaging
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play that you are co creating, creating, you're really creating,
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and other people might be co creating with you. But again,
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remember you are the lead in this play. So let's
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discuss this. Who is influencing you and your decisions? And
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I think that's one of the biggest questions I always
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like to ask, you know, through different you know, ways
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of asking, through periods of time, in different sessions, But
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who's influencing your decisions? Are you influencing your decisions? Your
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family influencing your decision? Is your spouse significant other influencing
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your decision? Or you know, are are people that are outsiders?
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Are they influencing your decision? Are you trying to be
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you know, you're trying to you know, move up and
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you're being influenced by people telling you you know things,
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or you're trying to move up in society, or you're
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trying to follow the lead of things, or you're looking
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at social media is influencing you or are you allowing
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your negative self talk to influencing you. When we are
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influenced by negative self talk, we reaffirm the negative thought
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processes about ourselves and in the process what we screw
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ourselves over. I mean just saying, and we normally hold
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ourselves back. So if somebody doesn't feel like they're competent enough,
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they're not going to do it. If somebody feels like
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they're not educated enough, they're not going to put themselves
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out there. If somebody believes that their employees, you know,
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don't like them, they're probably not going to go into
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the office or the business or the restaurant or wherever
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they're at. They're probably not going to do that because
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they don't want to deal with that. But the point is,
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I want you to start thinking about how often you
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were influenced not by your gut instinct, not by a positive,
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healthy manner, but more so influenced by that negative broken record.
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I'm never going to add after this, this is never
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going to happen for me. You know, all the stuff
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from back in the day, influenced from maybe if dad
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or mom was somewhat toxic. Maybe you were raised, you know,
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in an environment where there was alcohol and drugs. You know,
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maybe you were raised in a family dynamic where they
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did not take care of you, They were not there
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for you. They could not take care of you because
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they could not take care of themselves. So you are
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being influenced constantly in the background by that child that
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needs help and needs understanding, that inner child that needs
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to find that their inner child again because they never
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had an inner child growing up in these types of childhoods,
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it is very tough and very challenging because there was
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no time to be a child.
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And when you have no time to be a.
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Child and you have to adult in the very beginning,
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you miss out on the formative years of doing things
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that you need to do to actually honestly adult. And
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so that's why working with the inner child is so important,
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and that's something I do in my sessions with clients too,
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because I think it's so important. We can't we can't
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let that go. We have to address that. It has
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to be a part of our reality. So ask yourself again,
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who is influencing my decisions? Who am I trying to
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appear this way with somebody? Is my image more important
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to me than what I'm doing? I mean, really, get
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to the gut of this, because only you know the truth. Now,
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if you're working with me, I'll get it out of you.
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But if you're not working with me, you have to
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get it out for yourself. And this can be hard
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because many of you block it. You don't want to
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hear it, you don't want to deal with it, you
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don't want to confront it, you don't want to see
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the truth, you don't want to deal with it. And
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also the mind is blocking it too, because if the
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mind stops you from catching it and figuring out why,
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then you can't change it.
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You can't make it work.
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You are stuck in a cycle pattern of frustration, lack
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of motivation, worried about what other people think, worried about
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what people are saying about you. Not a good place
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to be at, A very very uncomfortable, unhealthy place to
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be at that a lot of people find themselves, and
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a lot of people, well, it ruins a lot of
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people's lives. The second thing, inner voices, I'm not talking
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about your gut, because your gut is very important. That's
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an inner voice, that's very important. But many of you